Spike Proteins & the Power of Fulvic Acid

Gary Moller
2 hours ago
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Introduction

A New Zealand — based health formulation and manufacturing team recently shared a summary of the latest research and expert commentary on the known and emerging health benefits of fulvic and humic acids. Their specialised facility sources fulvic from ancient peat deposits found deep beneath New Zealand's natural landscapes. These peat layers are the fossilised remains of long-lost ecosystems — forests, plants, microbes, and mineral-rich volcanic soils that have built up over thousands of years.

Many experts believe that this may be among the richest and purest natural sources of fulvic acid in the world

What makes Fulvic Acid so fascinating

What makes fulvic so fascinating is that it is not a recent discovery. Geological and biological evidence shows that fulvic and humic substances were common for most of Earth's history. Early life evolved in a world saturated with fulvic acid. It was present in soils, waterways, plants, and the entire food web. It was nature's original delivery system — turning raw earth into life-support. Fulvic carried minerals into cells, powered microbial ecology, and enabled the electrochemical reactions that drive metabolism and energy. Life didn't just adapt to fulvic acid — it grew up with it. Our biology is designed for it.

For millions of years, forests, grasslands, animal herds, rain, floods, decay, and regrowth maintained this natural abundance. Everything was recycled. Then, in just a few generations, modern agriculture broke the cycle. Chemical fertilisers, monoculture cropping, and deep tillage destroyed the living systems that make fulvic and humic acids. We replaced an ancient, self-renewing system with a short-term extraction. The result is depleted soils, weakened plants, poor nutrition, and declining human health. We have interrupted a natural process that has worked perfectly for millions of years.

This should be an alarm bell for us all. If we are serious about health, food security, and the long-term wellbeing of this country, then we must restore soil biology. Regenerative farming practices are not a "nice idea" – they are essential. Healthy soil is the greatest carbon sink on Earth. If you are worried about CO₂, climate change, or environmental collapse, you don't need complicated models or political slogans. You simply need vigorous plant growth and soil that holds carbon, water, and minerals instead of losing them. Restoring fulvic levels in soils is central to this. It benefits farmers, ecosystems, our food supply, and human health.

In other words, the Freeranger way is not just about personal wellbeing. It is about rebuilding the foundations of life itself. The health of our soil is the health of our nation.

Thank you, Rhys, for supplying the information that follows. I have done my best to present it to you, my readers and supporters.

What are Spike Proteins?

Spike proteins allow COVID viruses to penetrate host cells and cause infection.

These viruses must break into our cells to set up an infection. It gets into our body using the now well-known spike protein. But like viruses, it must take over our own cells to break the lock, and then replicate.

Spike proteins work a bit like shape-shifting lock picks. They can change shape to interact with a protein on the surface of human cells. Those spike proteins latch the virus onto a cell. This allows them to get entry into those cells.

Without the spike protein, these viruses would not be able to interact with the cells of potential hosts like animals and humans to cause infection. As a result, the S (spike) protein represents an ideal target for vaccine and antiviral research efforts.

Therefore, the S protein plays a crucial role in penetrating host cells and starting infection.

The S protein is a highly glycosylated and large type I transmembrane fusion protein that is made up of 1,160 to 1,400 amino acids, depending upon the type of virus.

Members of certain viral families have sharp bumps that protrude from the surface of their outer envelopes. Those bumps are known as spike proteins.

They're glycoproteins. That means they contain a carbohydrate (such as a sugar molecule). Spiked proteins are what give these viruses their names.

Under the microscope, those spikes can appear like a fringe or crown (and corona is Latin for crown).

Fulvic/Humic Acid

Fulvic acid is one part of humus. Humus is made of many organic compounds found in the Earth's soils, rock sediments, and bodies of water.

Fulvic acid is created by the gradual decomposition of certain plants and animals by the action of microorganisms.

Fulvic acid can help our cells use things like antioxidants and electrolytes better. This makes it popular for slowing down ageing, improving digestion, and protecting brain function. In fact, studies now show that fulvic acid has antioxidant, neuro-protective, antimicrobial, and anti-inflammatory properties.

Fulvic/Humic Acid & Spike Proteins

Humic acid inhibits all viruses. The Humic Acid with the best anti-viral action comes from plants that grow in fresh water (peat bogs). It is a kind of old compost that is thousands of years old.

Humic acid contains many kinds of "functional groups" (specific groups of atoms) that can bind to a multitude of viruses. Research has shown certain humic acids to be effective in vitro against all known viruses, including influenza, HSV & HIV.

The spike (S) protein is the sole viral membrane protein responsible for cell entry. It binds to the receptor on the target cell and mediates subsequent virus-cell fusion.

Viral Fusion Inhibition

Viral fusion refers to the fusion of the viral membrane and the host cell membrane, resulting in the release of the viral genome into the host cell.

To successfully begin an infection, viruses need to overcome the cell membrane barrier. Enveloped viruses achieve this by membrane fusion, a process mediated by specialised viral fusion proteins.

"With most viruses, the inhibitory effect of (Humic/Fulvic Acid) is directed specifically against an early stage of virus replication, namely virus attachment to cells (Klocking and Sprosig, 1975; Schols et al., 1991; Neyts et al., 1992).” “…it appears likely that the poly-anionic Humic/Fulvic Acids occupy positively charged domains of the viral envelope glycoprotein’s, which are necessary for virus attachment to the cell surface (Neyts et al., 1992).”

Antiviral Activity

Humic acids show a high antiviral activity. A humic acid molecule covers a virus like a "coat" to block its escape into the bulk and prevent its reproduction. In this case, humic acid sends a signal to the immune system about the appearance of an invader. This pushes the immune system to fight the virus, which is in a vulnerable position (bound to a humic acid molecule). As a result, the number of viruses decreases, and the immune system successfully fights the disease.

Humic substances (HS) have been known for a long time for their antiviral activity (Helbig et al., 1997; Jooné et al., 2003; Klöcking et al., 2002).

Studies showed that humic materials inhibited HIV-1 reverse transcriptase.

The different fractions of natural HS and synthetic HS-like materials are active against HIV (Botes et al., 2002; Brucolleri et al., 2013; Kornilaeva et al., 2019; Schneider et al., 1996; Van Rensburg et al., 2002; Zhernov et al., 2017; Zhernov, 2018), influenza virus A/WSN/1933 (H1N1) (Lu et al., 2002), herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1) (Klöcking et al., 2002), Coxsackie virus A9 (Klöcking et al., 1972), tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) (Orlov et al., 2019).

Research shows that humic acids function both prophylactically as well as therapeutically in the treatment of viral diseases.

Humic acid is first a preventative because it stops a virus from getting into a host cell, getting into the host cell, and growing. Studies have shown that if a host cell is broken before the Humic Acid is added, the viral reproduction process within the host cell does not stop.

However, if one has latently infected cells (i.e. those with chronic viral infections) and humic acid is present, once the host cell releases the new viruses into the bloodstream, the humic acid helps prevent the new generation(s) of viruses from attaching to the cell wall, hijacking the DNA or RNA, and reproducing, effectively lowering the body's viral load over time and hence its therapeutic function for active viral infections.

Humic acid may work for most, if not all, viral infections. Other studies are currently on-going.

Mechanisms for Viral Protection

Humic acid's main function is that it binds to viruses more strongly than our cells do. This helps to reduce the total amount of viruses in our body. This binding has been compared to a very sticky piece of Velcro. What is really happening is hydrogen bonding between electropositive and electronegative atoms.

Humic acid binds so strongly to viruses that it can move them from a cell surface. This stops the Spike protein from attaching.

In-vitro studies have shown, for example, that if you allow herpes simplex viruses to attach to host cells and then add humic acid to the solution, it will displace viruses from infected cell surfaces. That is, humic acid has a greater affinity for the virus than the virus does for the host cell. Thus, humic acid can displace a virus even after it has attached itself to the surface of a cell.

Humic acid blocks the site that the virus needs to be able to attach to a cell. If the virus cannot attach to the cell, it cannot take over the cell and thus, cannot reproduce itself. This limits the number of new viruses being created in the body and allows the immune system to defeat the virus.

The humic/fulvic acid sticks to the receptors of the virus so they cannot replicate.

Fulvic acid will cover the virus (on the ends of the spines and the surface of it) to make it hard to replicate. This is also called "Enveloping" because it puts the virus in an envelope like enclosure to where it cannot attach to a cell or replicate. With this "enveloping" the immune system is much more powerful and extremely effective against the virus.

This is a must-know for healthcare workers, doctors, ICU staff and nurses, the elderly and cancer patients or anyone with a compromised immune system.

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